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Originally Posted by Fong
Yes but again.
We are not talking about blame for the Levies.
George W Bush said on a TV interview, several days after Katrina, quite clearly, I did not know.
Then a video was released which quite clearly showed him in a video conference call with engineers quite plainly telling him that the levies were weak and would fail in the case of an extremely large storm.
At NO point have I blamed Bush for the problems that happened in New Orleans. Nor have I blamed him for not fixing the levies.
ALL I have done is point out that he lied. Which he did.
You can't defend that by saying what happened wasn't his fault, that has NOTHING to do with whether he lied.
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its not his job to make sure the levies are working. its the state's job. this isn't britain where your country is the size of vermont. america is a lot bigger and if the feds were to get involved in every little project like that, we would all be bankrupt.
that is why we have state gov'ts.
as i said earlier, if you know new orleans, you will never blame bush or say he lied. the fact is, we have some of the most corrupt politicians here ever known to man kind. along with that, the public workers they hire here are just ridiculous. i have never seen mailman sit on their asses for so long and chat with their buddies for hours on end and get paid for it.
everything is different down here. i always tell outsiders who i see (b.c tourism is all new orleans has going right now) that new orleans is unlike the rest of america. and in some ways it is better, in others it is worse.
thank goodness i live in the garden district, the beverly hills or laguna beach of new orleans.